title: Informal education of medical doctors on the Internet.
abstract: Physicians achieve parts of their knowledge informally on the Internet. In a first study we analyzed the quality of online content of prenatal screening and diagnosis on elements like Wikipedia, Twitter or YouTube. Furthermore, own content was published on blogs, forums and static pages, and visitor's data was measured. The second study consists of three surveys among physicians: Doctors use public pages like blogs or Wikipedia rather than professional or scientific communities and talk about patients via mailing lists or direct messages.
authors.affiliation: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics (PLRI), University of Braunschweig Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D057218:Blogging; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe; D006266:Health Education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D057220:Health Literacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010820:Physicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D061108:Social Media